Heretics Have Been Hated From The Beginning

Our Dangers, As It Seems To Me, Are Not From The Outrageous But From The Conforming; Not From Those Who Rarely And Under The Lurid Glare Of Obloquy Upset Our Moral Complaisance, Or Shock Us With Unaccustomed Conduct, But From Those, The Mass Of Us, Who Take Their Virtues And Their Tastes, Like Their Shirts And Their Furniture, From The Limited Patterns Which The Market Offers.

Bipartisan Democracy Presupposes The Individual, Whose Welfare Is Identical With That Of The Community In Which He Lives, The Absence Of Coherent Social Classes, A Basic Uniformity Of Interest Throughout.

The Mid-day Sun Is Too Much For Most Eyes; One Is Dazzled Even With Its Reflection. Be Careful That Too Broad And High An Aim Does Not Paralyze Your Effort And Clog Your Springs Of Action.

There Is No Surer Way To Misread Any Document Than To Read It Literally.

Conservative Political Opinion In America Cleaves To The Tradition Of The Judge As Passive Interpreter, Believing That His Absolute Loyalty To Authoritative Law Is The Price Of His Immunity From Political Pressure And Of The Security Of His Tenure.